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The Colonial Records of North Carolina, Volume 7
Each volume of this landmark series begins with a thorough introduction setting the historical context for the group of documents contained therein. An expansive index completed each volume. Includes much material not printed in the first Colonial Records series.
Records of the Executive Council, 1735-1754
Each volume of this landmark series begins with a thorough introduction setting the historical context for the group of documents contained therein. An expansive index completed each volume. Includes much material not printed in the first Colonial Records series.
Suspect Relations
Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from colonial North Carolina to reveal how early notions of racial difference were shaped by illicit sexual relationships and the sanctions imposed on those who conducted them. Fischer shows how the personal and yet often very public sexual lives of Native American, African American, and European American women and men contributed to the new racial order in this developing slave society. Liaisons between European men and native women, among white and black servants, and between servants and masters, as well as sexual slander among whites ...
A History of North Carolina in the Proprietary Era, 1629-1729
In this book, Lindley S. Butler traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. In the wake of the English Civil Wars in the mid-seventeenth century, King Charles II granted charters to eight Lords Proprietors to establish civil structures, levy duties and taxes, and develop a vast tract of land along the southeastern Atlantic coast. Butler argues that unlike the New England theocracies and Chesapeake plantocracy, the isolated colonial settlements of the Albemarle--the cradle of today's North Carolina--saw their power originate neither in the authority of the church nor in wealth extracted through slave labor, but rather in i...
Records of the Executive Council, 1755-1775
Each volume of this landmark series begins with a thorough introduction setting the historical context for the group of documents contained therein. An expansive index completed each volume. Includes much material not printed in the first Colonial Records series.
North Carolina Headrights
In North Carolina's proprietary period (1663-1729), the primary means of acquiring land was by headright. A free person was allowed to claim a specified amount of land for each person, including himself/herself, that he/she transported into the colony for the purpose of settlement. While the amount of land attached to a headright varied throughout the era, the most common amount was fifty acres.
